(A Note About Fire Worship: 

Fire (or sun) worship comes from Babylon originally and it is still practiced today. The Yazidi (or Yezidi) people of Iraq (modern-day Babylon) worship a sun-god. Their religion is similar to ancient Zoroastrianism (pg. 54) (i.e. sun-god worship of Babylon). In this religion, the people pray toward the sun, dance around bonfires, jump through fire, and worship the sun-god "Mirtha" (which originates from Tammuz). In the Zoroastrian religion (Chap. II; Sub-Sect. V; The Deification of the Child [Baal]; pg. 54), people worshiped the sun-god with fire, claiming that the fire was sacred and somehow connected to the power of the sun. Fire was thought to cleanse or help cleanse sin. In some Catholic countries people will jump through fires on "St. John's Eve." This also goes back to Zoroastrian fire-sun-worship (as Hislop shows in The Two Babylons, pg. 106 and pg. 54).

Alexander Hislop included a description of a Yezidi festival (pg. 106) that involved passing hands through flames for purification. 

Hislop writes:

Now, the reader cannot fail to have observed that in this Yezidi festival, men, women, and children were "PURIFIED" by coming in contact with "the sacred element" of fire. In the rites of Zoroaster, the great Chaldean god, fire occupied precisely the same place. It was laid down as an essential principle in his system, that "he who approached to fire would receive a light from divinity," (TAYLOR'S Jamblichus) and that "through divine fire all the stains produced by generation would be purged away" (PROCLUS, Timaeo).

This idea of fire purifying (such as the fires of Purgatory) is pagan and comes from sun-god worshipers. God forbids the worship of what God created. Romans 1:25 says, "Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen." {bold added})


Fire Worship and Catholicism

Passing Through the Fire to "Cleanse"


The sun was worshiped in ancient times by many pagans from various nations in the East, in the West, and in the Middle-East. 

In the 19th century, the Yezidi [Yazidi] people of modern Iraq (or Babylon) worshiped a god of fire. They would light torches and sing loudly in a festival dedicated to this sun-god, Sheikh Shems. 

Sir Austen Henry Layard visited the Middle-East during the 19th century and gave an account of a strange festival that took place in what is now Iraq:

"As the priests made their way through the crowd to perform their task, men and women passed their right hands through the flame; and after rubbing the right eyebrow with the part which had been purified by the sacred element, they devoutly carried it to their lips." (Layard, Austen Henry, Sir. A popular account of discoveries at Nineveh, 1851, pg. 184.) 

These Yezidi people believed that fire purifies them. That is why they worshiped the sun deity, Sheikh Shems, since fire was believed to be tied to the sun. Is this not identical to the Catholic Purgatory?

Roman Catholics are taught that the fires of Purgatory will cleanse away the "stain of sin" so they can go to Heaven. 

Alexander Hislop writes (in The Two Babylons) about how the Catholics of Ireland ran through fires with their children during the "Nativity of St. John" (pg 107). Hislop quotes from  John Tolland's History of the Druids:

* "I have seen parents," said the late Lord J. Scott in a letter to me, "force their children to go through the Baal-fires."

Lord J. Scott witnessed parents bringing their children through fires. (Most likely, they ran through so they wouldn't be burned badly.) This was to worship the so called "cleansing" power of the fire. This is nearly identical to what the Yezidi people did, passing their hands through the fire.
Fire cannot cleanse away sin. Only Jesus Christ's blood can (see 1 John 1:7, Acts 4:12).





Fire Worship, the Illuminati, and Babylon


At the time that men were scattered across the face of the earth, dispersed from the Tower of Babel when God confused their languages, they brought with them the pagan religion Nimrod and his mother started. This religion was adopted by Egyptians, Hindus, Greeks, Romans, Caananites, etc. Nimrod, a very wicked leader of idolatry, was killed by his uncle Shem (1)

When his son, Tammuz, was born, the son's mom, Semiramis (or Ishtar, Isis, Ashtoreth, etc.), told the Babylonians that Tammuz was a "reincarnation" of Nimrod and that he was a "god". She then, being the mother of this "god" was called the "Queen of Heaven." Tammuz was called Baal, (i.e. "master"), by Caananites and was worshiped as the "sun-god". Fire was part of this solar-deity-worship (1).

In the 1911 edition of Theurgia: Or, The Egyptian Mysteries, this marginal note says:

*Proklos remarks of the Perfective Discipline, "that, as the Oracles teach, it obliterates, through the divine fire, all the stains derived from generated existence." The Chaldaean Oracle [sic] also says: "The mortal drawing near the sacrificial fire will have light from Divinity." (Iamblichus. Theurgia: Or, The Egyptian Mysteries, 1911. pg. 202) (bold / underline added)


These ancient pagans worshiped fire because fire was thought to purify away sin (note: think of Purgatory). The Bible teaches that only Jesus Christ's blood cleanses away sin (see 1 John 1:7, Acts 4:12). These fire-worshipers believed that fire also gave "light from Divinity" (ibid). This light can also be called "illumination". Those who have been "illuminated" are called the "Illuminati." (Note: "illuminati" comes from the Latin word "illuminatus").

The Illuminati existed long ago, long before the time of Adam Weishaupt, who started a group he called the "Illuminati". Before they were called the "Illuminati" they had different names.  In the past, they were the elite priesthood of the ancient mystery religions (in Egypt, Babylon, Greece, Rome, etc.). These high-ranking priests of Babylon, Egypt, Greece, etc. hid secrets in plain sight in the form of symbols, images, rituals etc. They kept the real meanings of their rituals, symbols, etc. to themselves and made up explanations to tell the "common people" and the lower-ranking priests. 


Freemasons and Mystery Religion


The Freemasons have secret handshakes, secret sayings, and secret meetings which no one (but who they allow) can observe, just as did the mystery religions. Manly P. Hall, a high-ranking, 33rd degree mason, wrote:


"Freemasonry is a fraternity within a fraternity -- an outer organization concealing an inner brotherhood of the elect ... it is necessary to establish the existence of these two separate and yet interdependent orders, the one visible and the other invisible. The visible society is a splendid camaraderie of 'free and accepted' men enjoined to devote themselves to ethical, educational, fraternal, patriotic, and humanitarian concerns. The invisible society is a secret and most August  fraternity whose members are dedicated to the service of a mysterious arcannum arcandrum." [Manly P. Hall, Lectures on Ancient Philosophy, p. 433]

This "invisible society" Manly P. Hall writes about, which is "dedicated" to a "arcannum arcandrum" (or a "secret" or a "mystery"), also worships Lucifer. How so? Albert Pike, a 33rd degree mason explains:


"The Masonic religion should be, by all of us initiates of the high degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian doctrine. . . . Yes, Lucifer is God, and unfortunately Adonay  [God the Creator] is also God. ...for the absolute can only exist as two Gods: darkness being necessary to light.... The doctrine of Satanism is a heresy; and the true and pure philosophic religion is the belief in Lucifer, the equal of Adonay [God the Creator] ; but Lucifer, ... is struggling for humanity against Adonay, the God of darkness and evil." Albert Pike (quoted by A.C. De La Rive in La Femme et l'enfant dans la Franc-Maconnerie Universelle, p. 588; Lady Queenborough, Occult Theocracy pp. 220-221.) 



The Truth from the Bible



This twisted statement from this high-ranking mason makes the Creator God look evil and makes Satan (or Lucifer) look good. It also reveals how Satan-worshipers view God: they hate Him. Lucifer (Satan) is not equal to God in any way. Jesus Christ, (the Word) created all things.


Colossians 1:3 


3 We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, 


Colossians 1:16-18 


16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: 


17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. 


18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.



John 1 tells how Jesus Christ (the Word) created all things.


John 1:1-3  

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.


To twist things around, these evil men have called God evil and Satan good. 


Isaiah 5:20 


20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 



These "initiates of the high degrees", who Albert Pike speaks, of are serving Satan, the fallen angel who rebelled against God, who wanted worship for himself. God clearly tells us in His word that only God is to be worshiped and that only He is God. 


Isaiah 45:5

5 I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:


Jesus Christ said...


Matthew 4:10  

10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.


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HOW TO GET SAVED and KNOW GOD:


1. If you believe and confess aloud, genuinely from your heart, that Jesus Christ has paid for all your sinswith His precious blood and has risen from the dead (…knowing that you cannot earn this free gift of salvation) (Romans 10:9-10; 1 Corinthians 15:3-5; and Colossians 1:14);

2. And if you repent from your sins (You do this by confessing only to God Himself that you are a sinner and that you want to turn away from sin.) (Romans 3:23; Acts 3:19; and 1 John 1:8-9);

3. And if you have made Jesus Christ your Lord and Savior, you are saved (Jesus cannot be your Lord if you are serving yourself and living selfishly. If He is not your Lord, you would have another master. Jesus said in Luke 16:13: “No servant can serve two masters…”) (Romans 10:9-10 and Luke 16:13).

4. Now seek God with all your heart. Seek to know Him and you will (Jeremiah 29:13).


John 17:3 says: "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent."

Jeremiah 29:13 says, "And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart."


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(1) Click to see The Two Babylons, by Alexander Hislop. 


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